The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-10
NUMBER 6.

Texas fever has broken out among
the cattle in the northern part of Yer
million county. Illinois. 1t was Intro
duced by Texas cattle ssnt there to
feed.
Thomas Kane, Of Abingdon. Hi
| nOis, fred three shots at his wife on
| the evening OF the 81, and she fell.
Thinking he had killed her, he cOm-
United suicide by shooting himself
through the head. at North Grosver-
uordale, Connecticut, on the 4th, a
| young Swede named Nelson kicked a
BOY named Anderson so brutally as to
cause his death in a short time. Thy
quarrelled over penny matching. On
the evening OF the 4th a number of
drunken men raised a disturbance at
Mariana, Arkansas. Marshal Ford
arrested one of their number, and.
while on his way to jail, the crowd
attempted to rescue the prisoner.
Pistol shots were exchanged and one
of the rioters was killed.
In January 1886, Richard Turbett,
AbIam McCahan and Amos Baldwin,
employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
lost their lives by the destruction of the
railroad bridge at Duncannon. SUITS
were began and a settlement was eff
fected on the 9th. Mrs. Baldwin re-
ceiyed S4j00; Mrs. McCahan $4,000, and
Mrs. Turbett, $500, in addition to
$500 she received a year ago. The men
we've employed on a freight train, and,
while it was crossing d bridge it went
down, caused by a heavy food in SheT-
man creek.
Philip Schembs, in jail at Louis
vile, for drunkenness, committed sui
c!de on the morning of the 9TH by cut
ting his throat and the main artery Of
his left arm with a tin bucket IN which
soup had been sent to him.
Sheriff Owens attempted to arrest
four desperadoes at Hol5roOk, Aplche
county, Arizona, on the evening of tue
4th. lie was fired upon and returned
the fire, killing Andrew Cooper, and a
half. brother, named Samuel Bievins,
and wounGing John Blevins and Moses
b. Roberts, the latter mOrtally, A
telegram from Syracuse, New York,
says the mystery attending the murder
of Mrs. Asa Stone has been dlspelled
by the confession of Edward Sheldon,
a nineteen-year-old tramp, held on us
plcion. He says he went to her house
and asked for food. She refused it and
stepped towards him. He stopped her;
she struck him in the face; be knocked
her down with a club, and, to stop her
screaming, choked her to death. He
threw her body INTO the cellar.
"A train on the Richmond, York
River and Chesapeake Railroad, IN
Virginia, ran into a mule team at Fair
Oaks Station on the afternoon of the
Gun, killing a farmer named Terrell,
The business portion of Calico, a
village in Southern California, was
burned on the evening Of the 4th.
Loss between $4,000 ard Sl00, 600.
Tie large heading factory OF Frank "
Adams, at the crossing of the Bee Line
and Pan Handle Railroad, in Ander-
| son, Indiana. was burned on the even
| ing of the 18th. In addition to the fac.
tory two acres OF heading and slaves
and three cars loaded with heading
bolts were consumed. The residence
of Thomas Trueblood was also burned.
Loss, $25 900; insurance, $4,000.
Trains on the Bee Line were delayed
ten hours.
"A threshing engine on the farm of
William Bumphus, near Mount Yer
| non, Illinois, exploded on the 9th, kill
ing Bumphus and injuring four men,
two Of them fatally.
"A despatch from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, says that several years ago
Marsh l.. Polk robbed the State Treas
| ury of several hundred thousand dol
lars while serving as State Treasurer.
He was arrested and in ii short time
he was reported to have died. His
body was shipped from Nashville TO
Bolivar, Tennessee, where 1t was
buried. A Mr.. Gamble, a prominent
citizen of Admission, Tennessee, has
Just returned home from an extended
| visit in the City of Mexico, and says
that while there he met Polk and talked
| with him, and found that he was in
business there.
Martin Ryerson, the Chicago mil
liouaire lumberman, died suddenly in
| Boston on the 9th of neuralgia of the
heart. DR.. George b. Walker, a we'll
known physician, died at his home in
| Evansville, Indiana, on the 9th, from
the effects of Il surgical operation. He
was in the S0th year OF his age, and had
pract ,ced for nfty.two years. Rev.
ALVIN Woods, ID. d., died at his home
In Providence, Rhode Island, on the
| 9th, aged "a years. He graduated from
| Philips Academy. Andover and Har-
| ward, and was ordained in 1921. IL. f.
Williams, President of the First Nat
ional Bank of Northampton, Massa-
| chusetts, died on the 9th of consump-
ton.
Mrs. Charlotte p. Woodward, 81
years Of age, committed suicide, in
syracuse, New York, on the 6th,'b
taking rat poison. She was respondent
over the dissipation of her husband and
sou. a despatch from Los Angeles,
| California, says the body of Rev. John
Alonzo Fisher has been found. He
committed suicide. "M0roseness, caused
by the failure of some of his plans, lei
! to the deed" He was formerly a pro,
lessor in Johns Hopkins University.
Robert j. Ruth, a fertilizer merchant
of New York, committed suicide in
Baltimore on the 9th, by taking lauda.
uum. He was 90 years old. He left
Specific instructions about the DISPOSE
ton of his body.
TIE MARK ETS.